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The online home for Revolver Magazine and the Golden Gods Awards delivers hard rock and heavy metal news, Hottest Chicks in Hard Rock, music video, photos and moreFri, 31 Jul 2015 17:01:26 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2Tom Morello and Chris Cornell Reunite for Audioslave Covers and More at Seattle Benefit Showhttp://www.revolvermag.com/news/tom-morello-and-chris-cornell-reunite-for-audioslave-cover-and-more-at-seattle-benefit-show.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/tom-morello-and-chris-cornell-reunite-for-audioslave-cover-and-more-at-seattle-benefit-show.html#commentsMon, 29 Sep 2014 15:53:30 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=66541Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello and Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell joined forces onstage Friday night at the El Corazon in Seattle, Washington, for a 15Now benefit show. You can watch the former Audioslave bandmates take on their former band’s “Doesn’t Remind Me,” “Your Time Has Come,” and “Cochise.” The duo also took on songs by U2, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and more. The footage was filmed by “Iron” Mike Savoia.

]]>http://www.revolvermag.com/news/tom-morello-and-chris-cornell-reunite-for-audioslave-cover-and-more-at-seattle-benefit-show.html/feed0Review: Linkin Park – The Hunting Partyhttp://www.revolvermag.com/news/review-linkin-park-the-hunting-party.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/review-linkin-park-the-hunting-party.html#commentsMon, 16 Jun 2014 13:00:46 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=61156Thirteen years after being steeled in the crucible of Ozzfest, and millions of record sales later, Linkin Park have grown into one of America’s biggest rock bands. But now they’re ratcheting the kick-ass up another notch: Their new album, ‘The Hunting Party,’ is not only the hardest and heaviest thing they’ve ever released, but it’s also their first album to pack the sort of guitar firepower that would actually appeal to your average headbanger. The record’s potent mixture of punk, thrash, and hard rock–as heard on such bracing tracks as “Keys to the Kingdom,” “Guilty All the Same,” “Mark the Graves” and “A Line in the Sand”–is an especially ballsy move from a band that’s drifted deep into experimental/electronic territory on their two most recent albums, 2010’s ‘A Thousand Suns’ and 2012’s ‘Living Things.’

But its heaviness is hardly the only thing atypical about this latest Linkin Park record. Guitarist Brad Delson, who barely touched his axe in the studio in recent years, not only delivers great crushing riffs but also, on nearly every track, lays down a wailing guitar solo, if not two or three. In addition, ‘The Hunting Party’ is the first of the band’s records to feature cameos by outside musicians, including members of System of a Down, Rage Against the Machine, and Helmet (read what the groups’ Mike Shinoda has to say about those collaborators here), and it’s also the first one in their lengthy career that’s completely self-produced—which is especially notable considering that über-producer Rick Rubin oversaw the making of their last three albums.

The result of all these change-ups is an album that is both aggressive and progressive, while still maintaining Linkin Park’s innate pop sensibility. ‘The Hunting Party’ is inspiring proof that bands don’t have to get softer as they grow older–but can, in fact, do the very opposite. DAN EPSTEIN

In addition to rap legend Rakim, who guests on lead single “Guilty All the Same,” Linkin Park’s new album, ‘The Hunting Party’–which comes out June 17–features cameos from three musicians who should be very familiar to Revolver readers: Helmet’s Page Hamilton, who lends guitars and vocals to “All For Nothing”; Daron Malakian of System of a Down, who plays guitar on “Rebellion”; and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, who jams with the band on “Drawbar,” the album’s lone instrumental. Here’s what Mike Shinoda has to say about the latter three tracks, and the contributions of their illustrious guests.

“All For Nothing” featuring Page Hamilton
“That’s Page singing—there’s a double of me in there, but that’s him way up front. We hung out with him over the course of a day or two, and went back and forth over the song. It was just as much about meeting the guy and picking his brain and hearing cool stories about things that he’s done. But the other thing was, I really wanted him to know that this was a song we wouldn’t have made if I’d never listened to Helmet—you know, ‘It’s because of you that we wrote this. If you don’t want to sing on it, that’s OK, but we wanted to play it for you first. And if you want to be on the song, then you can be on the song.’ He liked it so much that he wound up singing on it, and he added some cool layers and chords on guitar.”

“Rebellion” featuring Daron Malakian
“Daron came in, and we tried having him play over a couple of existing things. It wasn’t vibing at first, but Daron’s such a great songwriter, that having him play over an existing track wasn’t my first choice, anyway. I said, ‘Maybe if you come in with some stuff, we can work it out together.’ And he came in with these great riffs that made the song–that’s what we built it around. As he was doing it, I was laying out the drums on the keyboard, like I like to do, and his mind was just blown. He was like, ‘Oh my god, they sound real! Dude, that would have taken us days to get that done—and you did it in 15 minutes!’ So he was showing us a bit of his world, I was showing him some of our world–it was really collaborative.”

“Drawbar” featuring Tom Morello
“With Page and Daron and Tom, we sat and talked to each of them about their process and our process. Everybody writes songs differently, and I think fans would be surprised at how different it can be. With Morello, we just got together and jammed. We’re so far from a jam band, and that’s all he does, as far as writing. Rage Against the Machine wrote their songs by jamming them out; we write our songs on the computer, and then learn them after we’ve written what to play. But we got together with him and jammed, and that little interlude, that instrumental, was the best thing we made together. It didn’t end up being a song—we tried putting some vocals on it, but it just didn’t feel like that.”

]]>http://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-linkin-parks-mike-shinoda-talks-the-hunting-party-guests-system-of-a-downs-daron-malakian-helmets-page-hamilton-and-rage-against-the-machines-tom-morello.html/feed3Tom Morello Working on First Heavy Rock Album Since Audioslavehttp://www.revolvermag.com/uncategorized/tom-morello-working-on-first-heavy-rock-album-since-audioslave.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/uncategorized/tom-morello-working-on-first-heavy-rock-album-since-audioslave.html#commentsWed, 14 Aug 2013 19:21:37 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=51875Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello recently told Bloody Disgusting that he’s working on a new rock release, a guitar-heavy album that’s set for a tentative 2014 release.

“It’s just time to rock,” Morello said, adding that he’s “written a batch of songs with huge riffs and huge grooves.”

“I’m working it out with my band now, and we’re about five songs deep at this point, but we’re taking our time with it,” he said. “It will definitely be a release-the-hounds effort.”

“This will be the first time since Rage Against the Machine or Audioslave that I’ve made a really big rock record.”

Morello also hinted that the new album — due to its “release the hounds” heaviness — probably will not be released under the Nightwatchman moniker.

The latest Nightwatchman album, World Wide Rebel Songs, was released in 2011.

After making an everlasting impression in the metal and rock-and-roll world, Dio celebrates its 30th Anniversary. Artist Series Guitar got in touch with a few significant people in the metal world to find out what affect Ronnie James Dio and the band Dio had on them.

The Dio experience began May 25, 1983 with the debut of the band’s greatest album known to date, Holy Diver, an American heavy-metal classic.

“It was then and still is a landmark metal album that has stood the test of time. Its musical longevity still continues to inspire younger generations of musicians,” said Don Jamieson of VH1 Classic’ That Metal Show.

Since the ’80s, the iconic Ronnie James Dio has amazed not only heavy-metal fans throughout the world, but many key players within the rock industry. Dio’s musicianship paved the way for many young artists including current Alice Cooper bassist Chuck Garric. Garric has played bass for a wide range of metal bands such as L.A. Guns, Eric Singer Project, and Dio.

“Dio has always held a special place in my metal heart,” Garric says. “As a kid growing up with Sabbath, Deep Purple, and Rainbow, I was already a huge Dio fan. The first time I heard Holy Diver, I about lost my mind! I was an instant fan of the record and the sound of Jimmy Bain’s bass tone was unreal! I was in High School and I remember the record was constantly playing in my car or on my walkman. To this day, my favorite Dio memory would be, playing ‘Stand Up and Shout,’ ‘Holy Diver,’ ‘Don’t Talk to Strangers,’ ‘Straight Through the Heart,’ ‘Gypsy,’ ‘Caught in the Middle,’ and of course ‘Rainbow in the Dark’ live on stage with Ronnie and the guys–killer!”

For nearly 30 years, RJD shredded the stage giving not only fans one of the best live metal shows, but he also amazed his band with his passionate stage presence.

“I carry my Dio experience with me everyday and every time I hit the stage… I played my heart out every night on stage with Ronnie, cause I knew he was going to sing his out,” Garric says.

For metal fans, the Dio band holds a memory in its own, but for former Dio bassist Jeff Pilson, it’s the RJD memory he holds most close to his heart.

“There couldn’t be a single favorite memory of my time with Dio,” he says. “Just being in that band was a favorite memory I’ll never forget. I guess one thing that sticks out in my mind is the feeling I’d get at the end of ‘We Rock’ every night. Ronnie really wanted me to sing backups with him, which didn’t often happen in Dio, so harmonizing with him was just the most powerful experience I’ve ever had. I remember so many nights when, right before that line ‘We Rooooooock,’ he’d look at me with that smile then we’d both lay into that line and it would just shake the rafters. It was so much fun!”

Dio’s live show delivered the metal goods in each venue, giving fans of all sorts the true metal experience.

“At one gig some dude behind me said, ‘Hey! Sit down!’ ’cause I was rocking out so hard,” Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello recalls. “So I replied, ‘Listen, the name of this song is ‘Stand Up and Shout’ so that’s exactly what I’m doing, jackass!”

Dio influenced so many artists, but what was most important to him were his fans.

“He was just a great example of the way an artist should treat their fans,” Jamieson says. “Always a gentleman, he always knew if it wasn’t for the fans there would be no RJD as we knew him.”

In memory of the 30 years that Dio rocked the stage, Artist Series Guitar will honor the band with a limited edition Holy Diver guitar. The Artist Series Guitar release will feature Dio’s exclusive Holy Diver album artwork detailed specifically for the guitar. The imagery is set using an exclusive chemical bonding process engineered by the luthiers at Artist Series Guitar. The collectable guitar is built with a solid mahogany body and features a Rosewood fingerboard, Mother of Pearl inlays, cream binding on the body, neck and headstock, jumbo frets, custom engraved, ASG Arsenal, dual-coil humbuckers, Kluson tuners, custom cut, Graph-Tech nut, Gravedigger ™ headstock, chrome ASG headstock emblem, speed knobs, gloss finish and a hardshell case.
For this exclusive 30th Anniversary Dio guitar release, Artist Series Guitar will only make 30 guitars, one to mark each year of Dio. The Holy Diver guitar will come in a bundled package that includes an ASG skate deck, ASG T-shirt, ASG snapback hat, an SKB hardshell case and Dio T-shirt.

This incredibly limited guitar will only be available at ArtistSeriesGuitar.com. Presale beings July 10 at 12 a.m. PST.

Device, the new industrial-rock project led by Disturbed’s David Draiman, will release their self-titled debut on April 9. The album includes guest appearances by Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath, M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold, Serj Tankian of System of a Down, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Lzzy Hale of Halestorm, and Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple and Black Country Communion.

In anticipation, the band is debuting new song “You Think You Know” right here right now. Check it out below, see what Draiman has to say about the song in the video, and let us know what you think in the comments.

]]>http://www.revolvermag.com/news/exclusive-device-featuring-david-draiman-of-disturbed-debut-new-song-you-think-you-know.html/feed43DimeBash 2011 to Feature Members of System of a Down, Slipknot, Disturbed, Anthrax, and More!http://www.revolvermag.com/news/dimebash-2011-to-feature-members-of-system-of-a-down-slipknot-disturbed-anthrax-and-more.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/dimebash-2011-to-feature-members-of-system-of-a-down-slipknot-disturbed-anthrax-and-more.html#commentsFri, 09 Dec 2011 00:07:41 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=29222Celebrating the lives fallen Pantera and Damageplan guitarist Dimebag Darrell and Ronnie James Dio, members of Slipknot, System of a Down, Anthrax, and more are uniting to pay their respects at DimeBash 2011 at Hollywood’s Key Club on December 14. The event is a communion of songs and stories, where everyone present can tip their glasses to one of the true masters of not only guitar but music as a whole.

“Today marks the seventh year, which still doesn’t seem like a reality to me,” said Rita Haney, longtime girlfriend of Dime and the person who knew him best, in a statement. “Sometimes I think, Boy, this sure is a long-ass tour, but then I focus back in and realize what I’m working on at this moment. And I just have to smile and be thankful for all the amazing people that surround me—thanks to him. I hope everyone enjoys this event as much as we like bringing it to them. It’s nothing more, nothing less, than ‘about a damn good time!’—one of my favorite Dime pastimes and phrases. There are no words to express my thanks to all the artists who make this event special and give ‘us fans’ a night to remember two truly amazing people and the music they created! I am forever at your beckon call, so c’mon out and experience the evening with us. It’s going to be quite magical!!!”

The Key Club Hollywood will play host to all-star jams featuring the vocal talents of Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell, Disturbed’s Dave Draiman, Velvet Revolver and Loaded’s Duff McKagan, System of a Down’s Serj Tankian, Suicidal Tendencies’ Mike Muir, and Sebastian Bach; the guitar of John 5, Anthrax’s Scott Ian, Machine Head’s Phil Demmel, Ratt’s Warren DeMartini, Ben Harper, In This Moment’s Chris Howorth, and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello; and the rhythms of King’s X’s Doug Pinnick, James LoMenzo, Rob Zombie band member Ginger Fish, Whitesnake’s Brian Tichy and Slipknot’s Joey Jordison, with many more superstars lending their vocal and playing skills to the metal proceedings. The whole shebang being emceed by That Metal Show’s Eddie Trunk and his cohosts, Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson. In addition, kicking off the event will be Kill Devil Hill, featuring the legendary Vinny Appice and former Pantera bassist Rex Brown. Also on deck are Dio Disciples, featuring the great Rudy Sarzo and vocalist Tim “Ripper” Owens, with a special appearance by Glenn Hughes.

The entire proceeds from the event benefit the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up & Shout Cancer Fund. Additionally, attendees will be able to land some limited-edition merchandise and purchase Monster Energy cocktail drink specials with 100 percent of the proceeds benefitting the cause as well.

]]>http://www.revolvermag.com/news/dimebash-2011-to-feature-members-of-system-of-a-down-slipknot-disturbed-anthrax-and-more.html/feed3Video: Tom Morello Performs at Occupy Wall Streethttp://www.revolvermag.com/news/video-tom-morello-performs-at-occupy-wall-street.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/video-tom-morello-performs-at-occupy-wall-street.html#commentsFri, 14 Oct 2011 19:07:36 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=25809Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello performed for the Occupy Wall Street Protesters in New York City, yesterday. You can now watch videos of Morello performing the classic Woody Guthrie song “This Land is Your Land” as well as “Save the Hammer for the Man,” from his solo project, the Nightwatchman.

]]>http://www.revolvermag.com/news/video-tom-morello-performs-at-occupy-wall-street.html/feed0Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello to Perform at Occupy Wall Street Tomorrowhttp://www.revolvermag.com/news/rage-against-the-machines-tom-morello-to-perform-at-occupy-wall-street-tomorrow.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/rage-against-the-machines-tom-morello-to-perform-at-occupy-wall-street-tomorrow.html#commentsWed, 12 Oct 2011 18:54:17 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=25339Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello will be performing at Occupy Wall Street in New York City tomorrow at noon, local time. Morello will perform acoustically for the protesters at Liberty Plaza/Zuccotti Park. This past weekend, Morello also performed for the Occupy Los Angeles demonstrations.

Morello, who also performs solo as the Nightwatchman and as part of Street Sweeper Social Club, has long-been widely recognized as a political activist. His recently released album World Wide Rebel Songs, as well as the Union Town benefit EP, saw all profits going to America Votes Labor Unity Fund via SaveWorkers.org.

]]>http://www.revolvermag.com/news/rage-against-the-machines-tom-morello-to-perform-at-occupy-wall-street-tomorrow.html/feed048 Hours Festival VIP Godfather Package for 2 Up for Charity Auctionhttp://www.revolvermag.com/news/48-hours-festival-vip-godfather-package-for-2-up-for-charity-auction.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/48-hours-festival-vip-godfather-package-for-2-up-for-charity-auction.html#commentsFri, 30 Sep 2011 16:41:11 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=24153The 48 Hours Festival powered by Rockstar Energy Drink is now giving fans the chance to bid for charity on eBay to win an exclusive VIP Godfather Package for two to the event in Las Vegas next month.

The winner of the charity auction will receive exclusive onstage access to watch the main stage, access to the backstage bar, as well entry to the event’s kick-off and after party and the chance to meet performers Steel Panther, and much more besides. Revolver will also be providing the winner with two pairs of Marshall headphones hand-signed by guitar-gods Slash and Tom Morello.

The 48 Hours Festival will take place at the Luxor Festival Grounds on the Las Vegas Strip over the weekend of October 15 and 16. Bands scheduled to perform include Avenged Sevenfold, Korn, Five Finger Death Punch, and Godsmack.

Here’s the full list of what’s on offer:
-2-Day the Godfather—all access tickets to 48 Hours Festival
-Exclusive on stage access to watch the main stage-Access to backstage bar and lounge
-VIP entrance
-Access to backstage massage therapists (extra charge)
-Entry to the Friday night kick-off party at House Of Blues with performance by Steel Panther
-Entry to the Saturday Night VIP After Party at House Of Blues at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino
-Official the Godfather—all access VIP laminate
-Official set of 48 Hours Festival poker chips and a custom and collectible souvenir ticket.